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1858 in poetry

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Events

  • February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine.
  • Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.

    • United Kingdom

  • Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools
  • Matthew Arnold, Merope
  • William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
  • Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song
  • A. H. Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
  • William Johnson Cory, Ionica
  • Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems
  • Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted
  • William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book
  • Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series, (1858–61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855)

    • United States

  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
  • A. H. Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
  • James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends
  • William J. Grayson, The Country
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems

    • Other in English

  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, Canada

    • Other languages

  • Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France
  • Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia

    • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
  • August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English poet
  • August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
  • September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
  • Also:
  • Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
  • Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford

    • Deaths

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (born 1807), American

    • References

    1858 in poetry Wikipedia
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